Software Developer (DV Security Clearance)
Position Description
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named one of the 'World's Best Employers' by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector.
CGI's Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focuses primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the government agencies most challenging problems. We work, build, and operate bespoke, technically complex, mission-critical systems which help our clients keep us all safe and secure. We are currently looking for an experienced software engineers to join our cross-functional team who, in partnership with our clients, will help define, guide and assure the delivery of integrated solutions. The role offers fantastic opportunities to work within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all the skills we need, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
Our roles are only available if you hold a UK Security Clearance and are a sole UK National due to the secure nature of the project. You will either hold a higher level clearance or be willing to obtain it. Any individual without security clearance is welcome to apply and will always be considered for this or wider opportunities in CGI, where appropriate.
Your future duties and responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team for a cloud based big data project. This role will focus on the design development and delivery of a software implementation, configuration of software improvements, maintaining deployment environments, and supporting changes to live systems when needed. We are looking for candidates with a positive problem solving attitude who can adapt to client problems as required.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
We are looking for candidates with experience in a selection of the following technologies and tools:
Programming Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript (including TypeScript), Go
Frontend Frameworks: Vue.js
Scripting & Automation: Bash, Ansible
DevOps & CI/ CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/ CD, Terraform
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS
Testing & Quality: Cucumber, SonarQube
Monitoring & Logging: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana
Dataflow & Integration: Apache NiFi
Experience across multiple areas is desirable; we don't expect you to know everything but a willingness to learn and contribute across the stack is key.
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